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SAFETY PIN.

No, 254,837. Patented Mar.1'4.1882

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE-c EDWIN L. PAINE, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES R. LANE, OF SAME PLACE.

SAFETY-PIN."

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,837, dated March 14, 1882.

Application filed March 5, 188]. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWIN L. PAINE, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Safety-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the method of constructing the safety-pin from one piece of wire, 50 that the section forming the lock or catch for the pin shall also become a guard for the point, coveringthe point; and it consists in the order of constructing the lock and shield, as hereinset forth.

Figure 1 shows the loop A, which in manufaoturing is the first bend in the wire B, and

is in the form of an acute ellipse. Fig. 2 shows this loop bent up at right angle with the shank C. Fig. 3 shows the loop doubled upon itself at a on Fig. 2, forming the lock E to engage the pin D, and the outer portion becomes a shield, F, for the point of the pin, shown in position in this figure.

In this way from one piece of wire, in the manner of bending, I form a complete lock and guard for the point of the pin.

I claim- The safety-pin having the loop A, bent at right angle with the shank O, and folded upon itself at a, said fold forming a lock, E, and guard F, substantially as specified.

EDWIN L. PAINE.

Witnesses:

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